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Dave Crisp
I was born in south London and left school with a passion for cooking, and photography. This did not give me many options in the early 60s so I joined the army to see the world. On finishing my thr...view moreI was born in south London and left school with a passion for cooking, and photography. This did not give me many options in the early 60s so I joined the army to see the world. On finishing my three year Apprenticeship in the army, I was posted abroad and cooked for many different regiments in Germany and England; with a few short tours of Northern Ireland and Cyprus. I left the Army to work as a butchery manager for a large supermarket chain across Wiltshire and Somerset. I soon settled down in Wiltshire, where I marred a local girl Shirley. When the pressure of work was too much and resulted in me always traveling and seeing little of my family, I went back to my passion of a cooking with a job in a hospital In Devizes, where I worked for fifteen years until I changed jobs to Chippenham in Wiltshire. This is where I stayed till I retired in 2010. It was in the late 70s that I took up detecting as a hobby to relieve the stress of the supermarket job, and I have done it ever since.
Apart from detecting, I still enjoy photography, and writing my style of poems; a book of which I hope to publish in late 2013.This will be accompanied with drawings and sketches, done by my good friend Micky, who did all the sketches in my detecting book. Micky was also responsible for checking and correcting my writing, which she was well suited for as she is an English teacher. I now enjoy giving talks to local clubs, societies and historical groups, on metal detecting, and the Frome hoard.
I live in a small quiet cull-de-sac in Wiltshire, where I have a large garden, which I enjoy tending throughout the year .This is also ideal for having the family along for BBQs weather permitting. I find gardening very relaxing, and the joy of sitting peacefully by a pond in the summer evenings and having a quiet beer cannot be beaten.
After finding the single largest hoard of Roman coins ever in 2010, it changed my life. But I still get immense pleasure going out and finding all the normal bits and pieces, which I have done for over 30 years; and that is what makes the hobby so interesting, you never know just what you might find.view less